neilwatson - My understanding is that outlook will also do a search on the email server (whichever configured at the setup) when you put a partial name of the person and press CTRL+K.

Example:
If you type Anthony and press CTRL+K, it will use all email addresses containing the name Anthony along with the previously used ones.

The one you are referring is called Outlook Caching and as long as you have that enabled in your preferences, then the previously used emails are cached. The moment you compose a new email and start typing the name, it will appear automatically for you to select. I just wanted to share this piece of information.

NOTE: This is very much applicable in a lot of corporate companies where they have dedicated email server which contains all their employee emails. Not applicable to Yahoo, Gmail,etc

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